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Acknowledgments, 1. Introduction: fiction and society in eighteenth century Britain, 2. Amatory fiction: Behn, Manley, Haywood, 3. Defoe: mapping social totality, 4. From passion to suffering: Richardson and the transformation of amatory fiction, 5. Fielding: system and satire, 6. Smollett: resentment, knowledge, and action, 7. Women novelists and the transformation of fiction, 8. Sentimental narrative: philanthropy and fiction, Index